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Published 2/25/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Some of the U.S. forces left in Iraq after President Barack Obama fulfills his pledge to withdraw combat troops will engage in operations against suspected terrorists, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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